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Join UsAmazon Denied a Worker Pregnancy Accommodations. Then She Miscarried.
Lauren Kaori Gurley /
Vice
Patty Hernandez, a 23-year-old Amazon warehouse worker in Tracy, California, miscarried after pleading with her manager and human resources for lighter duty.
Viral video of reporter getting sexually and racially harassed shows reality for many women
Bethany Dawson /
Yahoo
97% of women have experienced street harassment, with such experiences over-represented among black women, and female journalists. A video of news reporter Brianna Hamblin went viral, showing her being sexually and racially harassed before going live on air. Hamblin thanks people on Twitter for their "kind words" in reaction to her experience.
Trading sex for cosmetic surgery in Mexico’s narco capital
Linda Pressly /
BBC
The western Mexican state of Sinaloa is home to the country's most powerful and bloody drug cartel. The money it generates has left its imprint on the relationships between narcos and young women - and fuelled a local obsession with plastic surgery.
A women’s handball team wore shorts instead of skimpy bikini-bottom uniforms. The league fined them over $1,700.
Andrea Salcedo /
The Washington Post
Although the team lost to Spain, the captain said she hopes the defiant move can get the women closer to wearing whatever they are most comfortable in during the next championship. “I hope we get a breakthrough for this and that next summer we play in what we want,” Katinka Haltvik told Norwegian public broadcasting company NRK.
Textbooks Featuring Malala Yousafzai Are Removed From Bookstores in Pakistan
Zia ur-Rehman and Emily Schmall /
The New York Times
Authorities began confiscating a social studies textbook featuring a photo of Ms. Yousafzai, the education activist, after she questioned marriage norms.